Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home/cyibogmi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wptouch/core/admin-load.php on line 106

Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"? in /home/cyibogmi/public_html/wp-content/themes/suffusion/functions/media.php on line 669

Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"? in /home/cyibogmi/public_html/wp-content/themes/suffusion/functions/media.php on line 674

Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"? in /home/cyibogmi/public_html/wp-content/themes/suffusion/functions/media.php on line 687

Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"? in /home/cyibogmi/public_html/wp-content/themes/suffusion/functions/media.php on line 692

Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"? in /home/cyibogmi/public_html/wp-content/themes/suffusion/functions/media.php on line 697
Serious Whimsy » Jolana Malkston » Page 26
Warning: Declaration of Suffusion_MM_Walker::start_el(&$output, $item, $depth, $args) should be compatible with Walker_Nav_Menu::start_el(&$output, $item, $depth = 0, $args = Array, $id = 0) in /home/cyibogmi/public_html/wp-content/themes/suffusion/library/suffusion-walkers.php on line 17

Saturday in Serendipity by Margo Hoornstra {Guest Post & Giveaway}

 Book Tours, Buy the Book Tours, Serious Whimsy  16 Responses »
Mar 212015
 

Banner - Saturday in Serendipity

The Guest Post

by Margo Hoornstra

Saturday In Serendipity – And A Little Secret I’d Like To Share

It’s great to be here at the Serious Whimsy on my Saturday In Serendipity blog tour. Thank you, Jolana, for having me.

Saturday In Serendipity, my first foray into self-publishing, is a compilation of three novellas which revolve around a twentieth high school reunion at Serendipity High School. Serendipity is a mid-sized town located on the shores of Lake Champlain in Vermont.

Three Strikes Thursday, leaves Barry Carlson, professional baseball’s former golden boy, with some serious making up to do. A love ‘em and leave ‘em attitude of his youth has finally caught up with him and his future. Amanda Marsh is the one he foolishly pushed away. He has his work cut out for him if he hopes to ever win her back.

Two On Tuesday, has Serendipity High School graduate Blane Weston viewing her upcoming class reunion  as a chance to renew a former, but not forgotten, love. Enter Matt Durand, someone she’s recently considered, and quickly rejected as a potential business partner. Turns out he won’t take no for an answer and has other ideas for her time and activities at the reunion.

One Fateful Friday, is the story of forever friends Jake and Bethany, two soul mates through high school who went their separate ways after graduation. Brought together twenty years later, both involved with careers in healthcare, they assume they’ll re-establish their relationship with flawless compatibility. Except, they now hold different philosophies that might jeopardize their chance at a happy future. Continue reading »

A Matter of Opinion

 Serious Whimsy  15 Responses »
Mar 182015
 

It costs a hefty piece of change to go to the movies these days. The price of a ticket may soon reach the height of the International Space Station, and the price of concession snacks rivals the cost of a surf and turf dinner. Going to the movies has become a large investment of time and money. The last thing you want is to be disappointed in the movie you chose to see.

03-18-15 Movie Ticket Continue reading »

Bringing in the Thieves With Today’s Guest Lora Lee

 Buy the Book Tours, Serious Whimsy  11 Responses »
Mar 042015
 

My good friend Lora Lee, author of sweet romances and cozy mysteries, is Serious Whimsy’s special guest today. Lora Lee’s latest release, Bringing in the Thieves, Book One of her Joyful Noise Mysteries, is laced throughout with her signature knee-slapping Texas humor.

[I love the book title’s play on words, and Miss Nettie’s unintentionally humorous church newsletter column alone is worth the price of the book. See the excerpt below. :)]

Bringing in the Thieves introduces us to irreverent Frankie Lou Birmingham McMasters, a preacher’s prodigal daughter, whose former bad girl reputation still clings to her like hair on soap.

“Oh, it’s good to be bad.” So say the villains in recent Jaguar commercials on TV. Not so for Frankie Lou. When she returns to her hometown of Ruby Springs, Texas, she soon finds out that it’s not all that good to be bad, that people have long memories, and that Thomas Wolfe was probably right. You Can’t Go Home Again.

Here’s the author herself to tell you more. Welcome, Lora Lee! Continue reading »

Little Hole in the Wall Gems

 Serious Whimsy  9 Responses »
Feb 252015
 

There are so, so many franchise restaurants in this country of ours. Sometimes I think there are too many. I imagine that most people tend to patronize them because they know exactly what they’re going to get wherever they happen to be during their travels, and they don’t worry about unpleasant surprises.

But what about pleasant surprises? What about the thrill of discovery? We miss out on both if we overlook mom and pop restaurants and other little hole in the wall gems.

Take the mom and pop cafe that Macho Guy and I found on Mount Dessert Island when we visited Acadia National Park. This was a definite gem. We stopped in just for a little snack. MG had his taste buds set for a lobster roll, and that’s what he ordered. I was in the mood for blueberry pie. The wedge of pie served to me was huge, three inches high, and tightly packed full of blueberries with just enough blueberry juice for moistness. The crust was light and flaky. One bite and I was in Heaven. The cafe owners were retired military who met and married while in the Army. If that pie was an example of Army chow, I would have enlisted years ago. Continue reading »

The Forty-Day Lenten Countdown or Is It Easter Yet?

 Serious Whimsy  4 Responses »
Feb 192015
 

02-18-15 Ash-Wednesday

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, the day the torture begins. I should be more pious. I know I should, but I dread the start of Lenten Season. My will power—such as it is—simply isn’t up to it.

I never minded the fasting and abstinence all that much. It helped me lose weight as I aged. It’s the giving up stuff for Lent that bugs me. Who came up with that anyway? I could have missed it, but I don’t remember seeing anything about it in scripture. So why do we have to give up something we like for Lent? Why can’t we just fast, abstain, and suffer hunger pangs? Continue reading »

 Older Entries  Newer Entries
%d bloggers like this: